Friends of Edline Chun hug after the sentencing of Jerrell Henry on Tuesday.

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A Rochester man continued to deny that he robbed and killed his childhood neighbor last winter as he was sentenced to life in prison in state Supreme Court Tuesday morning.

Jerrell B. Henry, 29, last month was convicted of first-degree murder for robbing and shooting Edline Chun, 73, inside her Hazelwood Terrace home on Feb. 3, then dumping her body in Tryon Park. Chun, a popular instructor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and well-known community activist, was found at the bottom of a ravine in the park on Feb. 6.

Justice Francis A. Affronti said in court that he wished he could require ...